Department of Health and Community Services
Health Behavior Theories (HCSV 471-01)
Course Syllabus – Fall 2006
Instructor:
Mary Portis, DrPH
Office Hours: Office:
Phone/Voice Mail: 898-4994
E-Mail:mportis@csuchico.edu
(note: when e-mailing me,
please put HCSV 471 on the message line)
Fax: 530-898-5107
Mailbox:
Text: Web access required for reading materials
Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
Responsibilities practiced in the course:
1. Assess individual and
community needs for health education.
2. Plan effective health
education programs.
3. Implement health education
programs.
4. Interpret concepts, purposes, and theories in
health education.
Specific Course Objectives:
·
Analyze the
multiple factors, transactions and interactions that influence adoption or
decisions for health behavior.
·
Analyze theories
used in the field of health education to compile a personal set of behavior change
tools.
·
Describe the
reasoning behind behavioral change theories.
·
Apply behavioral
change theories to health education problems, populations and programs.
·
Design and
implement a community health behavior intervention.
·
Design and
implement an individual health behavior intervention.
Course Schedule
Tuesday, Aug. 22 Course
overview, requirements and methods, student profiles,
Introduction to Health Education Theory
Thursday, Aug. 24 Details
of 10,000 steps a day Project on campus and in the community
Team
development
Tuesday, Aug. 29 Models
of Individual Behavior Change, Baseline measurement due
Thursday, Aug. 31 Goals;
Self-Directed Behavior Principles, Tailoring
Tuesday, Sept. 12 Intervention
Planning, Weekly Journal Due
Thursday, Sept. 14 Consequences, problem solving, relapse, maintenance, termination,
Tuesday,
Sept. 19 Weekly
Journal Due, FIELDWORK: COMMUNITY INTERVENTION
Thursday, Sept. 21 FIELDWORK: COMMUNITY
INTERVENTION
Tuesday, Sept. 26 Self/Peer/Group/Program
Evaluation of Intervention; Plan Forward, Weekly Journal Due
Thursday,, Sept. 28 Exam #1
Tuesday, Oct. 3 Final Weekly Journal Due; Social
Marketing; directions for project
Thursday, Oct. 5 Stages
of Change, Transtheorectical Model
Tuesday, Oct. 10 Self-Efficacy
Thursday, Oct. 12 Empowerment
Tuesday, Oct. 17 Stress and Coping Theories, Social Marketing Project due
Thursday, Oct. 19 Stress and Coping Theories
Tuesday, Oct. 24 Social Support Theories
Thursday, Oct. 26 Social Support Theories and
Social Networking
Tuesday, Oct. 31
Thursday, Nov. 2 Social
Cognitive Theory; Social Network
Assignment Due
Tuesday, Nov. 7 Social Cognitive Theory
Thursday, Nov. 9 Social Cognitive Theory
Tuesday, Nov. 14 Community Organization
Thursday, Nov. 16 Community Organization
FALL BREAK – November 20-24 -
Classes
Tuesday, Nov. 28 Community
Organization
Thursday, Nov. 30 PRECEDE-PROCEED
Week 15
Tuesday, Dec. 5 PRECEDE-PROCEED
Thursday, Dec. 7 Summary
of Behavior Change Theories: Application and Evaluation
Final Exam; Thursday,
December 14, 10:00-11:50
Course Requirements and Points
Social Network Assignment 15
Weekly
Field Journal -6 weeks 60
Social
Marketing Project 20
Community
Intervention #1 30
Community
Intervention #2 30
Reflection
of Community Interventions 10
In-class
and take-home writing 30
NOTE:
The community intervention project may require additional class sessions. The
total number of points will be adjusted up if more work is requested from the
agency.
Guidelines:
Be
on time for class. Coming in late is disrespectful and disruptive.
If
you need to miss class, call or e-mail your absence.
All
assignments are due at the beginning of class. Late assignments lose one grade
for each day late. An assignment handed in at the end of class is considered
one day late.
Attendance
is expected. Five points are removed from the total number of points earned for
each absence.